Law

Weak Convictions

Prosecutors Are Freeing the Prisoners They Put Behind Bars

  • Beth Schwartzapfel

The Other Side of the Wall

Immigration Reform from the Migrant’s Perspective

  • Adam Goodman

The Price of Vengeance

Settling the Cinematic Torture Debate

  • Alan A. Stone

Crossing the Line

Latinos are a growing portion of the population, with an increasing capacity to swing outcomes at the ballot box.

  • Tanya Golash-Boza

Left Behind

Colombia may be entering peace talks, but the changes are not benefiting everyone.

  • Gimena Sánchez

Gideon Turns 50

Today, the vast majority of felony defendants depend on appointed counsel to represent them, and the quality of representation varies wildly.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

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Who Shot Valerie Finley?

Why One Man’s Innocence Is So Hard To Prove

  • Beth Schwartzapfel

Defending Freedom of Conscience and Religion Abroad

The Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom responds to criticism.

  • Katrina Lantos Swett

The Good of the Child

Is there actually a right to know one’s biogenetic familial origins?

  • Charlotte Witt

Strapped

My eight years with a gun.

  • Hal Stucker

Muslims Need Not Apply

Disband the International Commission on Religious Freedom

  • Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Making Every Vote Count

Electronic voting in Brazil.

  • F. Daniel Hidalgo

Votes Behind Bars

As of 2010, more than 5.85 million American citizens were disenfranchised because of criminal convictions. This is troubling. 

  • Pamela S. Karlan

The Checkpoint

On patrolling West Bank checkpoints as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces.

  • Oded Na’aman

War Is Betrayal, Redux

Any story of war is a story of elites preying on the weak, the gullible, the marginal, the poor.

  • Chris Hedges
with responses from
  • Roy Scranton
  • Chris Lombardi
  • Phillip Carter
  • William Treseder
  • Joyce S. Goldberg

Fighting over the Same Ground

An Interview with Rajiv Chandrasekaran

  • David V. Johnson

Contempt of Court

When the justices belittle the political branches, they hamper the government’s ability to solve our most pressing problems.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Before Greed

Americans Didn’t Always Yearn for Riches

  • Richard White

How Not to Talk about Gaza

Talking about Gaza is like talking about God. We face the ineffable. We cannot talk about what we see.

  • Colin Dayan

Our Men in Honduras

Losing Control of the War on Drugs

  • Lauren Carasik

Empty Benches

When Obama was sworn into office, there were 55 vacancies on the federal bench. There are now more than 75.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

New Model Army

The Liberian army embarks on its first combat mission since the end of the country’s brutal civil war.

  • Clair MacDougall

The Execution of Carlos DeLuna

Preventing Wrongful Convictions

  • Gabriel O’Malley

Telling Stories about the Stories We Tell

An interview with Philip Gourevitch on Rwanda, the dangers of narrative simplification, and the limits of humanitarianism.

  • Cécile Alduy
  • Philip Gourevitch
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